In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.